Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway – in pictures

Neil Patrick Harris is having a ball as an 'internationally ignored song stylist' in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Revisit the play's journey from cult hit to Broadway sensation
  
  


Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris plays the title role in 'platform shoes, angry slashes of blush and a blonde wig so bewinged that it threatens to take flight' writes Alexis Soloski. Photograph: Startraks Photo /Rex Features Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris started in the show after the ninth and last season of How I Met Your Mother came to an end. Photograph: Joan Marcus/AP Photograph: Joan Marcus/AP
Neil Patrick Harris
Still best known for that show and his role in Doogie Hoswer, MD, Neil Patrick Harris has also hosted the Tony awards several times. Photograph: Joan Marcus/AP Photograph: Joan Marcus/AP
Stephen Trask and John Cameron Mitchell
Hedwig was the brainchild of John Cameron Mitchell (right), who wrote the text, and Stephen Trask, who wrote the music and lyrics. Photograph: Lee Celano/AP Photograph: Lee Celano/AP
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell played Hedwig in the original off-Broadway production, and resumed the role in a cult 2001 film he also directed. Photograph: Entertainment Films Photograph: Entertainment Films
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Reflecting on the musical's journey from stage to screen, John Cameron Mitchell said: 'I think because we've been doing it so long, it feels like just another, although huge, gig ... This is Hedwig's craziest, biggest, wildest one ever.' Photograph: Entertainment Films Photograph: Entertainment Films
John Cameron Mitchell collects a Sundance Award in 2001.
At the Sundance film festival, the film won the audience award and the best director award for John Cameron Mitchell. Photograph: J Vespa/WireImage Photograph: J. Vespa/WireImage
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig was staged in London in 2000 at the Playhouse theatre with Michael Cerveris in the main role. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Donovan Leitch backstage at the Roxy theatre in Los Angeles where he played Hedwig in 2012
Donovan Leitch backstage at the Roxy theatre in Los Angeles where he played Hedwig in 2012. Photograph: Jonathan Leibson/WireImage Photograph: Jonathan Leibson/WireImage
Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco theatre in New York
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is at the Belasco theatre in New York. Read Alexis Soloski's four-star review. Photograph: Walter McBride /Getty Images Photograph: Walter McBride/Getty Images
 

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